My new Seven Axiom SL :)

[Seajay]

Looks great! From a fitter's perspective it also looks very neutral. Lots of room to tweak without doing anything extreme. Which is fantastic. You, your shop and Seven all did a nice job.
My Di2 shows up soon. Glad to hear another A report card.

Regarding comments about other Sevens with "freaky long headtubes" Remember that Seven was doing long headtubes long before the masses figured out that long head tubes work. They just don't have the ability with titanium to blend (read hide) in the headtube with wide carbon top tubes and downtubes...so they tend to look longer.

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Regarding comments about other Sevens with "freaky long headtubes" Remember that Seven was doing long headtubes long before the masses figured out that long head tubes work. They just don't have the ability with titanium to blend (read hide) in the headtube with wide carbon top tubes and downtubes...so they tend to look longer.

In my MIL's case she just plain wanted to be REALLY upright, but still have drop bars (which I don't understand, since I have never once seen her ride in the drops). She has a wide, spongey saddle, too. To be honest, I think she would have been just as comfortable on a relaxed geometry hybrid for a lot less money, but she LOVES to name drop and tell everyone she owns a custom Seven...it's just how she is. She name drops about anything and everything she can. If she is 3-4 degrees away from someone with even the slightest bit of fame she will make sure to tell ya' all about it...

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@Seajay - Yes, the fitter/shop I worked with made sure that there was plenty of "tweaking" room...in case, something needed to be adjusted later on. He really emphasized that because of the myriad of fit/pain issues I had on my previous bikes. I've only logged about 63 miles on it so far, so still too soon to tell if any tweaking is needed at this time. But I am loving the smoothness of Ti...it's a very different road feel than my full-carbon Cannondale.

Linda

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But I am loving the smoothness of Ti...it's a very different road feel than my full-carbon Cannondale.

Linda

Someday I'd love to ride a Ti bike. A friend of ours has a Ti Seven Mudhoney that she uses as a road bike, too (she's a major fan of Ti. When she bought her Mukluk she went all out for the Ti option, too). I think she simply swaps out a 2nd set of wheels to make it easy to go back and forth from road to CX. I think my dream bike would maybe be a CX bike with disc brakes that I could do something like that with. Cantilevers scare me trying to stop from any speed, especially once they get wet or icy.

How would you say it feels different? I was shocked by how smooth both steel and carbon feel vs. my aluminum bike on our chipsealed roads. That's where I'd really like to test Ti. My MIL's Seven is steel.

[Bike Chick]

I missed this post the first time around. What a beautiful bike!

[OakLeaf]

drooooooooooool. The orange is just perfect.